1817 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- March - A riot breaks out in Amlwch over food prices, and a ship carrying flour is prevented from leaving the harbour.[1]
- 22 July - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
- October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
- 6 December - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
- Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.[2]
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.[3]
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.
- Construction work commences on the first chapel in Tywyn.
- Approximate date - Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad, connecting to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.[4]
Arts and literature
New books
- Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer
- John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst
Music
- 14 July - Robert Williams composes the famous hymn-tune Llanfair (formerly named Bethel).
Births
- 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)
- 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)
- June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
- 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
- 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)
- 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)
- 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)
- 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)
- Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)
Deaths
- 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80
- 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65
- 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
- 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36
- date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
References
- ^ Thomas Tegg (1835). A Dictionary of Chronology ... Fourth edition [of "Chronology, or the Historian's Companion"], considerably enlarged. p. 300.
- ^ Friends of Blue; Wedgwood Museum (Barlaston, England) (1998). True blue: transfer printed earthenware. Friends of Blue.
- ^ John JENKINS (the Elder, of Hengoed.); J. EVANS (of Abercanaid.); Llewelyn JENKINS (1859). Hanes buchedd a gweithiau awdurol y diweddar John Jenkins ... Cyhoeddedig dan olygiaeth ei feibion John a Llewelyn Jenkins. A sylwadau ar ei nodweddiadau ... gan J. Evans. William Jones. pp. 105–.
- ^ van Laun, John. Early Limestone Railways. London: Newcomen Society. p. 50. ISBN 0-904685-09-8.